“We cannot teach children the danger of telling lies to men without realizing, on the man’s part, the danger of telling lies to children. A single untruth on the part of the master will destroy the results of his education.”
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used them as steps to climb beyond them. (He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it.)
He must transcend these propositions, and then he will see the world aright.”– Ludwig Wittgenstein
As an educator, one of the subtle behind-the-scenes choices I have to make each time I’m faced with Continue reading Lies to Children
